This Thursday, the National Electoral Commission announced the results of the legislative elections last Sunday that gave victory to the PAI-Terra Ranka coalition with 54 of the 102 deputies.
The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, said this Thursday, June 8, that the majority obtained in Sunday’s legislative elections by the Aliança Inclusiva-Terra Ranka Platform allows him to govern alone and that the sanctioned parties must form an opposition.
“Let PAI-Terra Ranka show the people the program that the people chose and I am the greatest ally they can have. And all the parties sanctioned by the people must know how to oppose it. There doesn’t have to be any alliance. The PAIGC, its alliance is Guinea-Bissau and I will be here to facilitate”, said Umaro Sissoco Embaló.
The Guinean head of state was speaking to journalists in the Presidency, during a message to La Nación, after knowing the results of the legislative elections on Sunday, which The PAI-Terra Ranka coalition won with a majority, obtaining 54 of the 102 deputies of parliament
The people of Guinea must know one thing, the greatest stability is the stability of those who win. They have an absolute majority and they do not need to make alliances, because otherwise they will buy problems in their own field”, said the head of state.
“We are not in a government of national unity, we are in a government of the legislature,” stressed Umaro Sissoco Embaló.
According to the head of state, PAI-Terra Ranka with “his majority must show the people of Guinea-Bissau and the people who elected him what he is capable of”.
“If due to an error in judgment they go to look for Madem or the PRS or the PTG, they are going to have problems in their field, it is not worth going to the seer, to find out that they are going to have problems,” he said.
Umaro Sissoco Embaló also called for a “solid” and “responsible” parliament, assuring Guineans that it will be a “new experience.”
“If people think that I am going to serve as a curtain for the armed wing to fight with the government, don’t count on me, they have to learn to wait four years,” he said, recalling that the PAIGC waited three years. in opposition.
In the message to the Nation, the Guinean president thanked the international observation missions present in the country for their “interest” and “dedication”, contributing to “reinforcing the credibility of the electoral process and of Guinean democracy itself.”
Umaro Sissoco Embaló also thanked the friendly countries and international organizations for the support given to the Government to make the elections “free, fair and transparent, a moment of national unity and consolidation of the Democratic State of Law”.
The National Electoral Commission announced on Thursday the results of the legislative elections last Sunday that gave victory to the PAI-Terra Ranka coalition with 54 of the 102 deputies to parliament, thus obtaining an absolute majority.
The provisional results also indicate that the Movement for Democratic Alternation (Madem-G15) obtained 29 deputies in the Popular National Assembly, two seats more than in 2019 and the party leader, Braima Camará, has already congratulated the winner, expressing his willingness to collaborate . and help find solutions for the political stability of the country.
The Social Renovation Party (PRS) won 12 deputies, a large drop compared to the 2019 legislatures, when it obtained 21 seats, and the leader of the political formation, Fernando Dias, said that he respects the will of the people and the message of ” repression by the company in which he was”, referring to the fact that he was part of the previous government.
The Guinean Workers’ Party (PTG), created at the end of 2021 and led by Botche Candé, obtained six deputies in its electoral debut.
The big loser in the legislative elections is the Assembly of the United People’s Democratic Party of Guinea-Bissau, headed by outgoing Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam, which won only one deputy, when in 2019 it elected five deputies.
Source: Observadora
